Civil Rights: Eulogy for a Woodchopper

Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro
woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on
a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month
Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began
breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe.
State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the
stomach, and died eight days later.

Last week Jimmie Jackson was eulogized by civil rights leaders as
another martyr to the cause. At...